People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. Aim to get good reviews on platforms like G2, Capterra, and SourceForge. How Clearcalcs improved user activation with Userpilot.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”.

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

So, at a previous company, we decided to fix the problem by putting a hard limit on the number of feature flags in the system: we could only have 150 flags in our monolith at any given time. Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. For example, at a previous company, we had a team responsible for building frameworks.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. And creates a storehouse of resonant insights.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Short on time? Speak the customer’s language.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. What the Scrum Master Should NOT Do.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Define your ideal customer profile.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Blue ocean strategy is especially relevant today as many industries are seeing declining profits and growth due to commoditization and saturation. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Blue ocean strategy is especially relevant today as many industries are seeing declining profits and growth due to commoditization and saturation. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. But metrics aren’t generic. Grass is greener.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Do you empower small, agile teams? And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. Now this is one of the trends. But they clearly did very very well with this trend. Are there resources available for little bets?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Wade Foster (CEO/Founder, Zapier) – Building Operating Cadence with Remote Teams from Business of Software Conference. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. The good news is this talk is not just for remote teams. Make sure you stay for the whole video. Video, Slides, and Transcript Below.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hope also does some leadership coaching with her own company, Fearless Product. Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even though product managers are supposed to engage various teams during the day, chances are you are not moving that much. Your own passion for the job and desire to show leadership, the feeling of being irreplaceable; these can be strong arguments to hang around way after you are truly needed. What about your team?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sometimes, however, blocks can develop in the pipeline. Sales and marketing tactics can vary, but to succeed, the teams need to be aligned around one plan : a revenue plan, not a sales plan and a marketing plan. How to scale marketing teams. If the ownership isn’t shared, finger-pointing creeps in. We’re ready to scale.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? But they will and we’re seeing the trend. The other thing they have in common is that they have, you know, chief design officers, they have a big research team, they really care about design.

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